in college I met a college grad student landlord. The owner was from out of town so she was rarely at the apartment to keep track of stuff. I met the landlord in summer to sign a lease to rent in the September when I returned to campus. I saw the owner and she told me she had to fire the landlord cuz he was demanding cash pay only for rent the summer renters and was planning to leave town with said cash until the owner randomly visited the property and caught him before he left! (that’s how rarely she was there)
Could you translate this into plain English? :rolleyes:
When I worked at the hospital, we hired a technician who was the stepson and son of the chief surgeon and a physician’s assistant, respectively. He claimed to be premed - he was a student at a local college - but there was no way this guy was going to get into medical school. In addition, TPTB at the hospital told us, “You WILL hire this kid whether you want to or not.” As could be expected, his job performance was very poor, and then one day, I came in and was told that he’d been in a serious car accident on the way home from work. Without violating HIPAA, etc. let’s just say that he’d been dipping into the drugs, big time, and had the strangest-looking psych consult I ever saw in anyone’s progress notes. (All 5 axes had something - never saw that before or since.) Okay, hiring him hadn’t been an option, but guess what? Firing him wasn’t, either.
Prior to that, I worked at a grocery store, and there was a cashier who, among other things, would punch out at the end of her shift, punch back in, and then come back a few hours later and punch out, thereby getting overtime when she hadn’t been working. I mean, really, did she think she was going to get away with this? I guess so.
How did C manage to work in two places at once?
I had a friend who was a recently graduated civil engineer. After a year at his first job, the place hired a Professional Engineer who outranked my friend, but drove friend nuts with his attitude and incompetence (PE once turned in a design where he’d connected a sewer pipe to a gas line).
My friend became suspicious and started researching this guy’s background. It turned out the guy was not an engineer at all; he had stolen and altered a real engineer’s certificates, other paperwork, and even his seal.
My friend reported this to the Board of Engineering, and one fine day, the police showed up to haul away Mr. Phony Engineer. My friend was ecstatic
I wonder if it was the same guy.
Also at the hospital, I found out after the fact that one my colleagues had never graduated from pharmacy school. Somehow, he had managed to get signed up to take boards, and passed them, and remained licensed (barely) until he left the hospital under suspicious circumstances, and got an overnight job at the local 24-hour Walgreens. (I found out later that he sexually harassed a lesbian technician, and believe that this was why he left.)
In the meantime, he and several other Wags employees were investigated and ultimately arrested after drug diversion was discovered. How was it discovered? A bunch of either OxyContin or MS Contin (I can’t recall which) ended up at a party, and a teenage girl fatally overdosed; charges were increased when the autopsy revealed that she was pregnant, even though it was so early, she may not have suspected it herself. :eek: 
AFAIK, he and his main technician are still in prison, and he’ll never get his license back.
That he hadn’t graduated was not discovered until after the Walgreens incident, about 20 years after his education ended, and the director who hired him felt totally betrayed that she’d been bamboozled in this manner.
We had a relief pharmacist at the grocery store who was more than a bit off-kilter; I have always suspected that he has Asperger’s Syndrome or whatever it’s called now. Long story made short: A few years after I left that job, he was pulled over for driving erratically, and when the officer shined his flashlight into the car, let’s just say that he must have taken half the pharmacy stock with him. Why it took FOUR YEARS to get his license revoked wasn’t in the court papers, which can be viewed online.
Hey, first post ever. Are these stories in english? I’m so confused, but oh well, mine is probably just as confusing.
Had a manager who was considered a big deal, at least that’s how he acted. He had demanded I use only the companies that he had “pre-approved” for outside contract work, of course he owned these companies. Someone caught on eventually, but I had to deal with this jerk-off for 3 years.
I just can’t understand how upper managers can’t see right through some of these scammers during the initial interviews, I know I can within the first minute usually.
And here’s the story I came here to tell: My first job out of college was at a mail order facility, with a few dozen pharmacists and lots of ancillary personnel. We had a few people who came in to help us out during busy times, and one of them was a guy that nobody liked anyway because he thought it was really funny to constantly insult people. He told another pharmacist that he had a really hilarious prank up his sleeve: he was going to sign on his computer with other people’s usernames and passwords, and deliberately make mistakes.
:eek:
Not long after that, he was escorted out of the building, and told not to come back. My co-worker was not the only one who was more than a bit worried that he would come back with a gun, but AFAIK nobody ever heard from him again.
EXCEPT FOR
the people at a local grocery store who had to call the police because he came in to do some relief work for them, and found out that another pharmacist had taken her own personal microwave home, and totally went berserk. Bye-bye, dude.
About twenty years ago, our company hired a guy who was supposed to design and implement computer-based training.
He spent his days in a perpetual dispute with his desk phone (“Hello? Hello? I can’t hear you, hello?”), and most of his calls were not business; they were to or from his wife or other women. Naturally, we in the cube farm could hear him from all over as he got louder and louder into the phone. Then there was the fact that the coffee from the office caf was too hot, and the coffee from our floor’s coffee station was too cold and too bitter. And there was the peculiar delight he took in certain kinds of current events: “So I see where the police caught that rapist–heh, heh, heh,” accompanied by a wink.
After six weeks, all he had managed to accomplish with the computer-based training software was an animation of the company logo. He did little else, except to interrupt our work, piss us off, and creep us out. The day he was let go, our department went out for a few drinks after work, to celebrate.
Multinational, multiyear project.
The Miracle factory never made any off-spec product. They did, of course, but having product around the factory which should have been destroyed decades before wasn’t their worst defect. They also had a Technical Manager who I can’t call an ass without apologizing to equines and behinds and a Sales Team which made our Sales people want to murder someone. In every other factory or business, while certain Salespeople might have certain specialties, or closer links to certain clients, every one of them sold every product and took the calls from any client. Not in the Miracle factory! Each Salesperson had her products and her clients. No product was ever sold to two clients (yes, the product catalog was an unholy mess of repeated specs with different costs and volumes). If someone was in the toilet or on vacation and her phone rang, tough titty.
When it was announced that the Technical Manager was being downgraded from managing 3 labs to managing 1, the team did the wave. When we found out who his succesors were, there was much cheering and celebration, as both were decent human beings and good workers. When it was announced that several salespeople who’d made the mistake of providing an excuse were being fired, the response from our Sales guy was “ooooh, can I tell them? Can I? Or at least be in the roooooom? Pleeeeeease?”
I work in a quasi government job with pretty strict union rules on firing so rarely do people actually get “fired”. They do get asked to leave and most do.
Last Christmas season we had some temp workers who got caught having sex in a back area who were persuaded to find another job.
A guy didnt show up to work for a month and never called or anything then when he did come back had this lame doctors excuse for 5 days. When fired started claiming all this discrimination stuff and what about his 12 kids and all.
At another place a young man who was always acting arrogant towards me and everyone else, started taking longer and longer breaks until he was basically gone half the night. I was fed up and told my manager who talked to him and he was let go. I hope he learned a lesson that people told like to be talked down to and dont expect us to cover for you when your a jerk
Forgive me for asking but is working under a fake license something a person can be arrested for? I thought it would just be something a company would fire them over and the board you mentioned getting the word out.
Depending on the location etc. etc. it would be identity theft at the least, fraud if the DA has his little ducks in a neat row.
Engineering is a very regulated field. Engineers have to pass tests and meet requirements before they can practice at certain levels. Impersonating an engineer is a serious offense. Public safety (buildings, roads, bridges) depends on engineers being competent.
Before he was arrested, Phony Engineer was slated to begin work on a nuclear facility. The company for which he and my friend worked chose to turn a blind eye to his astounding ignorance and incompetence.
We had an engineer who was always bad talking the company. Management sucked, coworkers incompetent, HR was out to get him, the schedule was impossible, etc.
So he landed a job at a new company, and spent his final 2 weeks burning bridges with a “so long suckers” type attitude that carried over to social media, with posts like “so glad to be out of that hell hole”.
So we later found out that he was canned on his first day at the new company - he had lied on his resume about having a masters degree and they checked. Oops.
Nah. Chemical company, chemical engineer: no PE licensing. He’d initiated a piping change that piped a drain leg from a process flare straight to a sewer. It wasn’t a failure at engineering standards; it was just dumb.
We had a long-time partner at my conservative law firm who was stuck in a time warp. He thought it was still the 80s and he could continue to do the three martini lunch thing. He picked up an acolyte in the form of a young associate (who was related to the firm’s founder and considered untouchable), and the two of them would leave work early to drink at local bars.
The partner started claiming hours worked on days he was out getting smashed, and the acolyte copied his style. The acolyte started sporting a Brett Burns-style beard and a man bun, and showed up very late each day, looking bleary-eyed and out of it.
Finally, about three years ago, the acolyte was fired, and a few months after that, the partner was escorted off premises. I saw online soon after that that he became a partner of another local law firm, but now I don’t see that he’s employed there anymore - or at any law firm anywhere, for that matter.
As a shop foreman I was adjusted to the fact that the branch manager would often use me as a fall guy to protect himself. As long as my job was not in jeopardy I was willing to put up with it. I had one boss that just did it too often and blatantly lied about me. I finally went over his head and just told them everything I knew. I had an excellent record of performance until this clown showed up. he was fired the next day. I was glad to see him go. I had 20 good years with the company and he had about 6 months.
Reminds me of a coworker who, on approved overtime, would read magazines, do her taxes, talk on the phone… She didn’t get fired, but she lost all her overtime.
Years ago, I worked with “Karen”, an annoying, know-it-all who blatantly said that the rules didn’t apply to her.
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We were supposed to rotate through out working positions so that we could maintain our certifications and skills running the various machines but she refused to do this. She had her machine and that was that.
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In direct violation of OSHA regs, she often wore sunglasses because of “migraines”. That’s real fun while maneuvering around forklifts.
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In direct violation of FDA and GMP regs, she often had a beverage near her work area ignoring the fact that we had a drinking fountain twenty paces away and that medical device manufacturing is pretty highly regulated. (people tend to get picky about quality control) She spilled it once and I caught a whiff of it. I’m willing to bet it was at least 40 proof.
She was fired after a particularly poorly thought out practical joke. She was using a forklift to load a pallet onto a 6’ high rack. She was having difficultly positioning the lift in the narrow space and foot traffic was waiting for her to finish so they could pass. “Bill” was getting impatient waiting and Karen just waved him past - directing him to walk directly under the raised forklift tines while it held several hundred pounds of molded plastic parts!. This was impressively stupid for both of them but “Karen” raised the stakes by dropping the forklift tines a couple of inches while “Bill” was passing through just to scare/piss him off.
All this happened in full view of the shift supervisor.
Both “Karen” and “Bill” were escorted off the floor in less time than it took you to read this post and I doubt they were in the building for very much longer. I didn’t really know “Bill” so I had no strong feelings about his termination but I did a little dance when “Karen” never came back.
I had a boss who was an absolute terror. Basically did every single “Do not do this” in any professional leadership manual. She would literally stand behind you if you were behind work and make various comments about having to “work harder” and “finish the task on time” and she has been known to stand behind a person for at least an hour commenting the entire time. She would micro-manage EVERYTHING even if it made absolutely no sense, as in having people in the middle of important jobs stop working to do some minor task just because she didn’t like to see anything not being done, then get angry when our main tasks were behind. She would go out of her way to deny people vacation/sick leave for really no reason claiming we were “understaffed” when we actually weren’t. She would take people and make them do things they 100% weren’t trained for, then get incredibly angry they weren’t being 100% efficient at it. At company potlucks that were entirely worker organized she would stand by the serving table and tell people how much food they could get, etc.
So after 3 years of this the big day was suppose to come, she was going to be promoted to take her bosses position. When were all happy since that would mean she would now be out of our hair and start harassing somebody else. However at the last moment instead of being promoted the higher-ups instead decided to slot in somebody from another branch to take over the position and keeping my boss in her current position. This made her incredibly angry and she literally just stopped showing up to work in protest. After about two weeks of this we learned she had starting actively arguing with everyone and anyone in management which pissed them off so much she had literally been demoted to just “Supervisor”, then after another week of not showing up demoted to “Lead”, and finally after a month got demoted all the way to being a regular worker. She still didn’t show up during all of this and from what I understand she’s planning some messy legal preparations to sue the company but she’s still technically employed though I highly doubt she’s ever going to show up again considering how many people she’s now pissed off.